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SMART: Towards Spatial Internet Marketplaces

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Spatial Internet Marketplaces are proposed as an extension to Spatial Data Infrastructures, in which on-line access to data and geoprocessing services replace distribution of data sets. A key design challenge is achieving interoperability in a large-scale distributed system with a high degree of heterogeneity in the services. The SMART (Spatial Marketplace) model combines a simple architectural model with only two types of services, a message-passing paradigm for interaction between customers and service providers, and a declarative language for expression of requests by a customer. The language, the Request Specification Language, is aimed at catering for variability in the operations offered by a service provider. It also ensures low complexity of implementation of mediators to connect existing information services to the Marketplace. A set of infrastructural services is proposed to aid a customer search for and combine services. The feasibility of the approach is confirmed by two proof-of-concept systems.

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    David J. Abel, Volker J. Gaede, Kerry L. Taylor & Xiaofang Zhou**

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Abel, D.J., Gaede, V.J., Taylor, K.L. et al. SMART: Towards Spatial Internet Marketplaces. GeoInformatica 3, 141–164 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1009899610244

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